Motivations with kqed politics editor scott shafer. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Thank you for having me. Youre spending a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars on ads calling for the impeachment of president trump. Youve never held office. Youve never run for office. Why are you, tom steyer, the guy to be saying its time to impeach the president . Well, i dont think its at all about me actually, scott. What were really trying to do is empower the voice of the American People. What were doing is letting, at this point, over 4 Million People put their voices together to say this is a dangerous president. Hes unfit for office. We need to get him out. So it really isnt at all about me. Were not convincing anyone to do this, i assure you that. Were enabling them to put together a collective National Voice to speak up to elected officials. As you know, youre getting a lot of pushback from democrats, starting with House Minority leader nancy pelosi, who says its too soon. We need to wait fo
Congressman devin nunes of manipulating the contents of the classified memo. President trump allowed the release despite objections from the Justice Department and fbi. This morning, he accused the two agencies of politicizing the investigative process. Joining me now with more on this latest twist is congressman eric slawwell from the east way. What is your reaction to the release of this memo . Its disturbing that the republicans in the house would to protect the president. Theyre asserting facts not supported by the evidence to protect the president in this russian investigation. Theyre doing it over the objection of the fbi and in a first world democracy where never before have we seen political leaders use police to attack our leaders. So from where you sit on the house Intelligence Committee, what will you do at this point . The best way we can clean up the distortions that their memo has made is for the democratic memo to be released on monday. So well force a vote on monday whe
Hearing that russia is a principal threat. He also said he supports the Iran Nuclear Deal, which trump has repeatedly criticized. I think to publicly display what iran is up to, that their surrogates and proxies, their terrorist units that they support, to recognize the Ballistic Missile threat, to deal with the maritime threat, and to publicly make clear to everyone what theyre doing in the cyber realm all helps to constrain iran. Amy we will host a roundtable discussion with Andrew Bacevich, author of americas war for the greater middle east, trita parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and author losing an enemy obama, iran, and the legacy of diplomacy, and with reporter aaron glantz, whose latest investigation asks did defense , secretary nominee james mattis commit war crimes in iraq . Then earlier this week, at another confirmation hearing this one for senator jeff , sessions as attorney general, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus slams the Senate Judic
We will hear what Michael Moore told the crowd. As bad as we think it is going to be, it is going to be worse. That is the truth, my friends. I am sorry to have to begin on such a depressing note. But here is the good news. The good news is, there is more of us than there are of them. Amy we will also speak to naomi klein, author of this changes everything. Let us be clear what will happen tomorrow in this city is not a peaceful transition of power. It is a corporate coup detat. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting live from Howard University and washington, d. C. , on this Inauguration Day a donald trump as 45th president of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people have descended on washington, d. C. , either to support or to protest Donald Trumps inauguration. Late thursday night, Police Deployed pepper spray against activists protesting outside the protrump deploraball
We will look at trumps false claims that millions of people illegally voted in the election, helping Hillary Clinton when the popular vote. What you have presented so far has been debunked. Pres. Trump look at the pew reports. I call the author and he told me they found no evidence amy while no evidence of mass footer fraud has been found, public records shows several members of trumps inner circle and family are registered to. Ote in more than one state the list includes steve bannon, jared kushner, sean spicer, his daughter tiffany trump, and Steve Mnuchin. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The planet is closer to a catastrophic disaster than at any time since 1953. Thats according to the scientists behind the doomsday clock, a symbolic timekeeper that tracks the likelihood of nuclear war and other existential threats. On thursday, the scientists moved the clocks minute hand 30 seconds closer to midni